Gripping device



A. VANDERDONCK.

GRIPPING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED APR-15,1920.

'1 362,905, Patented Dec. 21, 1920.

INVENTOR Alphonse Vanacraanck.

%joW AT ORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

ALPHONSE VANDERDDNCK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GRIPPING DEVICE.

Application filed April 15,

To all QUIZ-077% it may concern.

Be it known that I, ALrHoNsn Venom:- noNoK, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GrippingDevices, of which the following a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvements in clutching and gripping devices,and more particularly is adapted for use in gripping cables, ropes, orsimilar articles such as clothes lines.

In the accompanying drawings 1 have illustrated in Figure 1 in sideelevation, partly broken away, and partly in section, one application ofmy invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the same at right angles showing thedevice in full outline without the rope in position. Pig. 3 is a sideelevation, partly broken away, illustrating a modification, and Fig. atis a view looking from right to left at Fig. 3.

Referring now more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, it will be observedthat the handle or body portion 5 terminates in oppositely facing teethsuch as (3-43 and is provided with a pivoted cap 7 provided withrecesses S-8' the same being opened at one side as indicated at 9. inorder to grip the rope, the same may be passed through the opening 9 orintroduced through the end of the same, after which by taking hold ofthe handle Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 21, 1920.

1920. Serial No. 374,028.

5 the same is firmly gripped between the teeth and the recesses, ifpulled rightwardly looking at vFig. 1, between the teeth 6 and therecess 8; if leftwardly, looking at the same figure, between the teeth 6and the recess 8. These teeth of course may be straight instead offormed in opposing directions.

in the modifications shown in Figs. 3 and it an additional binding orgripping device comprising the spur 10 at the end of the weighted member11 may be pivoted at 12 as shown, in which case the rope will benormally gripped until the weighted member is shifted; thus releasingthe same due to the eccentric mounting of the spur 10.

Of course it will be understood that various modifications may be madewithout departing from the spirit of the invention as claimed.

I claim:

in a hand gripping device of the class de scribed, a handle provided atone end with a gripping portion at the opposite end having teeth atopposite sides thereof, a pivoted recessed member adjacent theretothrough which a rope is adapted to be passed whereby when said handle ispulled in either direction, said rope is gripped between the teeth ofsaid gripping portion and the recessed member at the side in thedirection in which said handle is pulled.

In testimony whereof I hereunto attix my signature.

ALPHONSE VANDER-DONCK.

